BBC Radio Merseyside documentaries on the Merseybeat era by Spencer Leigh.
Author: Vicki Caren
Currently Cataloguing Manager for UOSH North West hub, based in Archives+, Manchester Central Library
Chester Archaeological Society Oral History Project
This oral history collection was created between 1984 and 1986. It contained over 120 interviews of recollections of life in Chester and the surrounding areas
Women’s Lib? “Well, I’m all for it”
Women born at the start of the twentieth century compare the politics of women’s liberation of their youth in the 1930s with the 1960s and 1970s.
Mrs. B interview question on Women’s Lib movement (MSOH/756(2)_e09)
Interviewer: [00:00:00] Now, you say that your daughter is kind of, er, standing up for herself. How do you feel about the Women’s Liberation movement
Mrs. C interview question on help from men in cp (MSOH/757(2)_e02)
Interviewer: [00:00:00] Did many of the Communist men give as much help to their wives? Mrs. C: [00:00:05] Did they hell as like! I had
Mrs. F interview question on attending mettings (MSOH/758(2)_e03)
Interviewer: [00:00:00] Did you find that, er, once women had children, it was a problem, them getting out to meetings? Mrs. F: [00:00:08] Oh it